1. Research on Continued Use of Sport-related Social Application: Taking WeRun as an Example
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Yiqian Melannie Zhan and Ke Zhang
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Subjective norm ,business.industry ,Gadget ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Health care ,Continuance ,Computer-assisted web interviewing ,Psychology ,Affect (psychology) ,business ,Social psychology ,Pleasure ,media_common - Abstract
Research on healthcare gadget or application is not new to many of us, yet WeRun's special features have been a reason, and it is completely free of charge. While we take into consideration that WeRun is the most popular application in the world, this study makes a through exploration of how this application could attract loyal members and recruit new members every day. Based on the Theory of Expectation Confirmation, the research combing the variables of emotional pleasure and subjective norm into the expectation-confirmation model of IS continuance (ECM-ISC) to measure the factors that affect the continued use of WeRun by users. A 325 online questionnaire survey had been conducted to this research. The results show that emotional pleasure was positively and significantly associated with users' satisfaction of WeRun and internal influence was positively and significantly associated with users' continuance intention. However, emotional pleasure is not significantly associated with users' continuance intention and external influence has negative influence on user's continuance intention.
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- 2017
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